Legal Opinion
Green
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided October 4, 2016No. SJC 11999PublishedCited by 18 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtHines, J.
This is an appeal from the denial of the Commonwealth’s motion for a new trial after a jury found the petitioner, James Green, no longer sexually dangerous in a proceeding brought pursuant to G. L. c. 123A, § 9. In the motion for a new trial, the Commonwealth challenged as erroneous and prejudicial the judge’s instruction that in order to find the petitioner sexually dangerous, the jury must credit the expert opinion testimony of the qualified examiner. The Commonwealth claims that the judge’s instruction was erroneous because it improperly commented on the weight a jury must give to a…
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